With
a significant contribution of US$2 million from technology
giant Microsoft Hong Kong Limited, 18 Cyber S.P.O.T s will
be set up in the coming years by the Federation…click
to read more…

Job
Expo balm to youth unemployment

To
take care of youth employment needs, the Federation and
the Home Affairs Bureau of the HKSAR Government, with
the support of our media partner JobMarket recently organized
the Youth Job Expo together with 43 businesses and corporations,
offering 2,000 job vacancies to youth job seekers…click
here to read more...

Attachment Programmes for Youth Workers

This
November and December, 5 social workers from Singapore
and 4 youth workers from Shanghai will undergo attachment
in 9 of our Federation's service units…click
to read more...

Making children safe onlineFor today's
youth the Internet offers opportunities beyond any of our expectations.
In
a decade, it has revolutionised the
classroom and is a major interface between children and technology.
But with it have come challenges, risks and dangers. They
include pornography, harassment and the online soliciting of children.
This is a very serious concern, especially when the majority
of our secondary students have received obscene material online.

Risk
management techniques at home, at school, via the media, government
and the law have to tackle the problem. With parents' and children's
awareness raised, projects such as the Federation's forthcoming
exchange camp and international conference on the subject can
be effective. With Hong Kong's Internet service providers regulating
website content and being backed up by law enforcement, the healthy
cyber world of the future can become a reality. Any child going
online should be able to do so safely. That is our goal and we
can reach it through a concerned, concerted effort.

From night
drifter to volunteer student
Fion, now a diligent 19 year old associate degree student, used
to spend her nights out on the street when she was 12. She got
into serious trouble with the police before she came to the Federation's
Youth Support Scheme for counselling. But from then on there was
no looking back…Click here to read about
it

Domestic
tragedy
The problems that come with parenting and family relationships can get on top
of even the best parents but in a disturbing number of cases they lead to crime.
Zero tolerance to domestic violence is the official policy and the police are
setting up a central database of cases…click
to read more...

Compulsive
gamblers get younger

A recent poll
conducted by the Hong Kong Young Women's Christian Association
between March and August this year, found out there was a slight
increase in the number of pathological gamblers but some of them
were as young as 12…click to learn
more…

December
1st World AIDS Day
HIV/AIDS emerged 20 years ago. Now, 1 person in every 200 worldwide has the disease.
39.4 million people aged 15-49 suffer from it and 2.1m are under 15 years old.
More than 50% of all new infections are in the young (under 25) and 6000 more
youth become infected every day. In 2004 alone about 5 million will become infected,
25% of them Asian. New cases jumped by 50% in East Asia this year, most notably
in China.
AIDS in China has raised its ugly head very abruptly above the parapet. In January
1993, an estimated 17% of the population of China had never even heard of AIDS.
Now, UNAIDS estimate that by 2010 ten to twenty million people in China will
be HIV positive.“China has everything to gain if it can stem the
tide of the AIDS epidemic, and everything to lose if it fails”
- Kofi Annan.